And the This week we welcome to the show the hostesses with the most

esses the co-originators of the book, podcast, and overall project Missing Witches of

missing witches.com. So Amy and Risa, welcome to the show.

Hi.

Hey, thanks for having us.

Absolutely.

No, really looking forward to this.

And I actually don't, we only rarely do triple header shows around here, especially first-time guests.

So this is going to be an interesting round-robin, and I'll let you decide who gets to go first,

Amy or Lisa. Were you weird kids?

Yeah, I mean, I'll let Riesa answer for herself, but I definitely can say that for both of us.

Our weirdness each had its own different emergent properties if you will but

My mother said when I was a baby that I came out with this kind of expression of like cynicism and judgment like and so I've always has sort of had this sense that like the world doesn't operate the way that I have been

told it does even from infancy so yeah a very weird kid and a very weird adult proud to say.

Yeah it's funny I have a four year old who can probably

hear hollering in the background and so it's funny I get to like see myself as a

kid in some really real ways like my mom is like yeah no I've been through this before you know I know she's she's fucking intense like I've I've been there she's magical and I think I was kind of like that you know like she she just is so deep in an

imaginary world and I was like that too I was very much like someone looking out a window in a car and seeing a whole space scape at all times.

You know, there was always magical beings around at all times.

I was always just deep in a story world and I don't yeah that hasn't changed that much.

Yeah, very good very good and did you guys then it's one of the funny questions to look at in retrospect because even if

people find themselves in magic one way or the other they can kind of go

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